#7: "選擇..VS.爭取獨立", "國之不明..真正理由", 連根藤. Chomsky on Progressive Strategy. Campaign for America's Future. 07.6.29=5 11pm.

"選擇獨立VS.爭取獨立", 連根藤, (自由時報2007/06/30)

聯合國憲章第七十六條ｂ項規定：「被託管住民可以自由意志選擇獨立或自治」。這表示台灣住民已經存在著「獨立狀態」和「 獨立的主權」，可供住民依自由意志選擇。所以根據聯合國憲章第七十六條ｂ項，台灣住民已經獨立。但是這個獨立需要台灣住民，即台灣人民與信託統治者，即阿扁的「台灣信託統治當局」雙方同意。也就是只要阿扁同意台灣人民的要求，選舉「台灣總統」，選出的「台灣總統」，才能獲得國際上的承認。

所以「選擇獨立」表示台灣已經獨立，有些人說「台灣還未獨立」，可視為違反國際法，或者可視為他們所說的「台灣」指的是「台灣信託統治當局」的中華民國還未獨立。

至於「爭取獨立」表示還未存在獨立地位、還未存在獨立主權，還有「母國」，或者是還在被殖民狀態，必須經過「爭取獨立」才能獲得獨立主權，所以兩者完全不同。

台灣在日本放棄台灣主權以後，進入無關「片面改變台灣主權」的「信託統治」，美國認為台灣住民現在仍在「信託統治」狀態，所以把中華民國還原為「台灣統治當局」，不希望它透過「加入聯合國」或修憲、制憲或公投而造成「片面改變台灣地位之現狀」。阿扁的「台灣信託統治當局」只能「扶助台灣人民選舉台灣總統」才不會「片面改變台灣地位」，才行得通。

（作者為台生報發行人）

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"國之不明 是真正理由", 連根藤, (自由時報2007/06/27)

自由廣場六月二十日有陳文賢教授指出：「美國政府以『一中』政策作為美國不支持台灣加入聯合國的理由…似乎過於牽強。

」事實上，美國不支持台灣加入聯合國，甚至也反對阿扁政府辦加入聯合國公投的理由，無關「一中」政策。美國既然不認為中華民國是個國家，它就無權利申請加入聯合國。美國雖然視台灣人民為「國家」，但是這個「國家」叫什麼名稱，領土、人民如何界定，更重要的是這個「國家」的「代表」是誰？既然「國之不明」，就要先界定台灣人民的台灣國，有「國家」才能申請以台灣名義加入聯合國。國之不明是真正理由。

加入聯合國的問題，問題出在台灣內部，阿扁在國際上，只是「中華民國占領機構」的代表，他的任務是「扶助台灣人民認領已形成國家的台灣國」，讓台灣人民選台灣總統，這位總統才有權力申請加入聯合國。媒體必須在這方面發揮宣導作用。

（作者為日本《台生報》發行人）

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/29/2181/

"Chomsky on Progressive Strategy"

Published on Friday, June 29, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
"Chomsky on Progressive Strategy", by Wolfgang Brauner

Noam Chomsky is one of the key figures on the American and global left. He is said to be one of the most widely quoted intellectuals in the world. In 2005, readers of AlterNet voted him MVP (Most Valuable Progressive). And he remains very close to many activists.

For all these reasons, we were very excited when we finally had the opportunity in late May to interview Chomsky for 25 minutes about his thinking on progressive grand strategy for building political power on the American left. More specifically, and in keeping with the main interest of our Progressive Strategy Studies Project, we asked him whether he finds it useful to think about how to build power in strategic terms.

Glancing at the list of individuals and organizations that we included in our first report, “Finding Strategy: A Survey of Contemporary Contributions to Progressive Strategy,” he noted that there was more “extensive and far-reaching” thinking on progressive strategy than what was reflected in our report.

Throughout the interview, he mainly referred to the work of Gar Alperovitz, Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, and Joel Rogers (the latter is included in our report), on how to democratize the economy and the workplace through worker self-management, cooperatives, etc. In particular, he referred to Alperovitz’ latest book, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (2004), and a number of books by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel on participatory economics and broader sociopolitical issues. Chomsky considers their work to be very important, particularly for activists.

He started out by emphasizing that the US is “a one-party state with two wings, Democrat and Republican,” and claimed that both were “way to the right of the majority of Americans” on many crucial issues. According to Chomsky, social scientists like C. Wright Mills, Thomas Ferguson, and Bill Domhoff (who also is included in our report) are pretty much right: Corporations dominate the power structure and hence US politics. In the US this is even more so the case than in other countries because of the much more brutal suppression of labor. Quoting Dewey, Chomsky noted that in the absence of economic democracy, “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.”

Since the state, having become so thoroughly co-opted by corporate interests, is part of the problem, it is difficult to significantly change it from within through elections or public policy reforms. While short-term, pragmatic change remains possible and desirable, systemic change would require a transformation of power relations within society through a democratization of economic decision-making.

Criticizing the recent health care reform in Massachusetts as overly complicated precisely because it has to respond to too many corporate interests, Chomsky noted that, even though a large majority of the population favors straightforward changes, the US can’t even achieve a real health care reform. While pragmatic change is better than nothing, it pales in comparison to the kind of change a country like Bolivia has been able to achieve, “something the US and other Western societies can only dream of.”

Serious progress towards a truly functioning democracy requires democratizing the economy. Traditionally, labor has been the main agent of change, but today it is, as Chomsky put it, “smashed,” and struggles to survive. Who can fill the huge gap that labor has left behind? Chomsky admits that other actors, such as churches and universities, are weak, if not marginal, though there has been impressive growth of popular movements, many of them quite new and promising. They offer considerable promise and opportunity for those willing to keep working hard at “building the cells of a future society.”

Wolfgang Brauner is the Project Manager and Principal Researcher of the Progressive Strategy Studies Project at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
(http://www.comw.org/pssp/index.html). You can reach him at wbrauner@comw.org. The report, “Finding Strategy: A Survey of Contemporary Contributions to Progressive Strategy,” can be found here: http://www.comw.org/pssp/fulltext/0611psspreport1.pdf

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